Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01

The Design for the Grand Triumphal Arch
the st. Louis Encampment-Sixty
Bands to be Prescnt-A Post Command
er's Caution to His Comrades.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 26.-General d. P. Grier,
chairman of the encampment executive
committee, Chairman Thompson, of the
Illuminating committee, and Chairman
Delano, of the triumphal arch committee,
have agreed upon the design of the
triumphal arch that shall be located at
Twelfth and Olive. The line of march OF
the grand parade will be arranged accord
ingly, and the procession will be reviewed
Just as it passes under the arch. A high
stand will accordingly be erected near the
arch for the reviewing officers.
There were fully dozen designs sub
mitted, and the one presented by Noxon,
Albert & Toomey was accepted, and they
were awarded the 500 prize.
Their design calls for the most magnifi-
cent arch ever seen in st. Louis or any
other city. It will be sixty feet wide by
fifty in height. The huge bases will be
made in imitation of rough red granite
and each base will cover ten feet square
of ground. At distance of twenty feet
above the ground the interior of these coll
unlns will form arch, but the columns
proper will rise thirty feet higher. These
two massive columns will be built up
mental cornice will relieve the monot-
ony.
just above this cornice on either side
will be placed cannon. Above the can
mons will be mammoth G.. A. r. badges,
and on the top of one column will be an i'm
fsntry soldier figure, life size, while on the
other will be q marine. In the center of
the arch, just above the keystone, will be q
life-sized picture of General U. s. Grant
on horseback. All around the dead hero
will be cannons, muskets, swords and
flags.
At the very top Of the arch is a charioteer,
standing erect in his chariot, driving six
horses. Immense flags will wave from the
top of each tower. On the arch proper
will be the inscription in large, gold letters:
"The Grand Army of the Republic" On
each tower will be painted battle scenes.
The whole structure is so arranged that it
can be illuminated at night, and will fully
compensate the Exposition people for the
removal of their arches of variegated col
ored gaSuGbes.
On the left of the picture of General
Grant will be q painting symbolical of
war; on the right will be one of peace.
There are many details that can not be
described in words. In fact, the effect of
this arch will always be remembered.
1t will be most impressively grand. The
contract for it's construction will be let in
the course Of a few days, and the work on
the construction will commence some time
next week.
Twenty local bands will be employed to
furnish music for the grand parade.
There will be forty visiting bands brought
by the larger posts from other States.
The committee of arrangements is hav-
ing hard time to find boats for the river
excursions.
Ex-Governor John M. Hamilton Of IL
linois was a visitor at headquarters.
Governor Hamilton, when only thirteen
years old, carried musket in the first
company that General D. p. Grier took
into the war.
Lincoln Dubois, commander of Steven
son Post, Springfield, ILL.,, which will
attend $50 strong, has officially notified
members of the post that any comrade
guilty of ungentlemanly conduct during
the encampment will be court-martialed.
In other words the boys must not enthuse
a-la-vermillion.